Anne Hutchinson Quotations

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.

The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.

If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away?... Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.

If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you.

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

In considering found that the papists did not deny him to be come in the flesh, nor we did not deny him-who then was antichrist? Was the Turk antichrist only?

When I first came to this land because I did not go to such meetings as those were, it was presently reported that I did not allow of such meetings but held them unlawful and therefore in that regard they said I was proud and did despise all ordinances. Upon that a friend came unto me and told me of it and I to prevent such aspersions took it up, but it was in practice before I came. Therefore I was not the first.

Better to be cast out of the Church than to deny Christ.

An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.

I have been guilty of wrong thinking.

You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselves thus much, you do as much as in you lies to put the Lord Jesus Christ from you, and if you go on in this course you begin, you will bring a curse upon you and your posterity, and the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand.

But put the case, Sir, that I do fear the Lord and my parents. May not I entertain them that fear the Lord because my parents will not give me leave?

If you please to give me leave I shall give you the ground of what I know to be true.

I pray, Sir, prove it that I said they preached nothing but a covenant of works.

Being much troubled to see the falseness of the constitution of the Church of England, I had like to have turned Separatist. Whereupon I kept a day of solemn humiliation and pondering of the thing; this scripture was brought unto me-he that denies Jesus Christ to be come in the flesh is antichrist.

I confess I have been more choice and he hath left me to distinguish between the voice of my beloved and the voice of Moses, the voice of John the Baptist and the voice of antichrist, for all those voices are spoken of in scripture. Now if you do condemn me for speaking what in my conscience I know to be truth I must commit myself unto the Lord.